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    Wip January Entry: City of the Old Ones

    A late entry (sorry but I only just found this site/joined). I am very
    pleased to meet you all (so to speak)!

    This is was designed to be a large continous battlemap depicting a
    section of a "courtyard/urban dungeon for 4E D&D" that I call "The City
    of the Old Ones". I started this map about two weeks ago, without any
    knowledge of this competition, with the aim of producing something that
    would be printable on A0 or ideally on 1M x 1M format, so this
    competition is perfect! I hope it is OK to enter the competition on this
    basis but apologies if I have broken the rules in any way?

    Background; I hope to publish this city as a module, with full interior
    and some underground maps and monster statistics, though the GSL delay
    has me worried.

    I would really appreciate the comments of people on this board as you
    all seem to know alot more about cartography than I do! I wish I had
    1/10th of the texture knowledge that some of you display; your knowledge
    is simply staggering.

    I built all the objects and layers on this map in Photoshop CS4 from
    scratch; except for the Dragon (stolen to show scale) and the gravel
    layer (stolen from the Photoshop default fill layer). The actual map is
    12000 x 12000 pixels and my computer hates opening it (the PSD file is
    2GB). Unfortunately, this file has a pixel density of 4000 x 4000 and so it doesn't look nearly as sharp as the original, but the site would not upload anything more dense.

    The figures on the map are golems and there are six, including two on
    golem horses. To see the scale to human size, look for the six bodies
    sewn into yellowish sheets in the top left hand courtyard.

    I hope I have time to finish this before the judging starts; still alot
    to do!


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    "I don't know half of you, half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." Bilbo Baggins LoTR.

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